Hacker News: InsOp

New comment by InsOp in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

InsOp — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:14:04 +0000

like ZigBee compatible with home assistant

New comment by InsOp in "How AI is unlocking ancient texts"

InsOp — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:27:18 +0000

are there any news in the voynich code?

New comment by InsOp in "Writing as a form of thinking"

InsOp — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:06:17 +0000

much like a rubberduck

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)"

InsOp — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:44:05 +0000

doesn't look so good in mobile

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

InsOp — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:30:54 +0000

https://universe-dawn.com

a browser based mass multiplayer online game with a sci-fi "the expanse" like setting.

remember the old school (2004) games you used to play with your browser. play it again with new technology but old flair.

currently there are 150 players, but no money made so far because I don't like pay to win and without that it's hard to monetize such a game

I recently translated it into english so everyone can play with us :)

Ask HN: Are there good certificates for Developers?

InsOp — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:28:50 +0000

I once was a working student of a cybersecurity company. they required for each new hire to complete the famous OSCP certificate within 3 months.

they did that in order to make sure that their new hire is up for the task and probably because they can sell their services better to their clients.

Now I run a WebDev agency of my own with partly frontend-devs, backend-devs, fullstack-devs and DevOps guys - There are known cloud-native-foundation certificates for DevOps guys as well as certificates for the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc), but I didnt find any good ones for lets say react or nodejs devs.

Since I want my employees to have a good coding standard/knowledge I thought of having such certificates for them as well, but I am still unsure whether its a good idea or rather a waste of time.

are they well received in the western world (We are from germany)?

does my favorite community has some thoughts on that topic?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34164048

Points: 2

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New comment by InsOp in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

InsOp — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:23:34 +0000

can you elaborate on what bad or evil things he is doing?

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?"

InsOp — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 23:08:31 +0000

Devs. it is a miniseries and has only marginally to do with AI. you will enjoy it none the less. also there is Westworld. and ghost in the shell (and matrix, of course) Ex Machina is great, too.

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?"

InsOp — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 14:14:11 +0000

im glad you asked: we try to use Foss as much as possible. I have a Kubernetes cluster in hetzner with split horizon DNS (for DNS I use googles DNS solution), for VPN I use openvpn. for Chat we use Mattermost. for video chat First jitsi then discord (jitsi is hard to selfhost). for project management Gitlab professional. we use notion for documenting as much as possible but we want to switch to outlined soon. dockermail for email (but not yet automated forwarding and filtering). file transfer with Nextcloud. tracking time with toptals toptracker. docker remote workspaces with kasm (we require working with Linux OS only so if you don't bring Linux, then you have to use our docker workspace). we get that question a lot and are currently working on a simple solution to create such an environment with a few clicks (powered by helm and the cloud of your choice)

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?"

InsOp — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:03:06 +0000

I have created a software agency 4 years ago. we are full remote and 5 fulltime and 7 partime workers (some working students included). I pay myself 70k p.a. and reinvest the rest into the company. it is growing around 100% in revenue each year. in the beginning I asked myself whether it's worth it not to just develop for a big company, but now it pays. I don't even have to work the full 8 hours a day.

New comment by InsOp in "Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back"

InsOp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:06:29 +0000

what are the other things he is screwing up?

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

InsOp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 08:03:06 +0000

hey there is a twittermovement called #buildinpublic where people at least show their progress in public. some to that extend that they have a page where you can see all money spent and received as well as other metrics. the user levelsio is doing that for exmaple with his SaaS products

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

InsOp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 07:54:07 +0000

I have my own company with 10 employees and only recently started out learning about business development. I recently took a coach for sales and she could provide valuable info. now I figured that it would be better to hire someone who does that for me.

that being said, I believe that you shouldn't wait until you learned skills X and y until you open your own company. you'll never start if you always think that you have learn more before you start

New comment by InsOp in "Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic"

InsOp — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:40:47 +0000

please add a "submit" button. I ended up pressing the chat button instead because I didn't find any other button to press after entering my search term

New comment by InsOp in "The End of CI"

InsOp — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 08:35:32 +0000

you could amend a commit with a flag if the git hook ran. if the flag is set one wouldn't have to execute the whole CI pipeline

New comment by InsOp in "Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today?"

InsOp — Thu, 26 May 2022 20:37:52 +0000

What would keep me from recreating Wunderlist?

New comment by InsOp in "The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme"

InsOp — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:29:09 +0000

I found the "basilisk collection" (at the bottom of "bottom of the iceberg") the most fascinating one .

I have the feeling that the whole iceberg only exists for us to click on this very article (as both share the same domain)

New comment by InsOp in "750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida"

InsOp — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 07:55:14 +0000

Is this comparable to what is explained in this kurzgesagt video? https://youtu.be/TnzcwTyr6cE

New comment by InsOp in "Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects"

InsOp — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:00:50 +0000

heard of typeORM?

New comment by InsOp in "Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects"

InsOp — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:46:45 +0000

what's the problem with mongo? which document database would be better if you'd use typescript? I'm using mongo with typegoose in development and I'm happy with it. I'm open to better alternatives